[OT] FCC Aproval - Restrictions by country

2012-11-15 Thread Cristian Gómez
Hi guys I'm a proud Neo FreeRunner owner concerned by a law that's been implementing in my country (Colombia on South America) The law proposes that you can only use a cellphone in the country if it's homologated by a local government statement, this means that one (a carrier commonly) must pay

Re: [OT] FCC Aproval - Restrictions by country

2012-11-15 Thread Peter Viskup
On 11/15/2012 08:57 PM, Cristian Gómez wrote: The law proposes that you can only *use* a cellphone in the country if it's homologated by a local government statement, this means that one (a carrier commonly) must pay a lot in order to get one cellphone model homologated, it doesn't matter if

Re: [OT] FCC Aproval - Restrictions by country

2012-11-15 Thread Peter Viskup
On 11/15/2012 10:24 PM, Cristian Gómez wrote: Thanks for your answer Peter The law that is trying to decrease cellphone stealing. When you buy a free cellphone (out of carriers) in order to use it on GSM network you must: - Valid buy invoice (as far as they said, they will accept Amazon and

Re: [OT] FCC Aproval - Restrictions by country

2012-11-15 Thread Peter Viskup
On 11/15/2012 10:35 PM, Cristian Gómez wrote: I forget to explain how the forbid of access to the GSM network will work: There will be two lists of IMEI's: - Black List: I think every country have one. There goes the reported (as stolen or lost) IMEI's - White List;: With all IMEI's that are